News Round-Up
- “U.K. monkeypox cases jump 70% in just three days to 179 as health chiefs say anyone who develops a new rash should abstain from sex” – The WHO also upgrades the threat to moderate, the Mail reports.
- “People with monkeypox symptoms told to isolate at home” – The UKHSA issues new guidance in a bid to stem community transmission as cases almost double, according to the Telegraph.
- “We Won” – The Biden Administration suffered a stunning defeat in its attempt to amend the International Health Regulations at the World Health Assembly last week, says James Roguski.
- “Tory MP slapped down by watchdog for false claim about Covid jab deaths” – U.K. Stats Authority Chair Sian Jones told Tory grandee Sir Christopher Chope there was “no basis in official statistics” to support his claim that 10,000 have been seriously injured or killed by the Covid vaccines, the Mirror reports. Hmm, so what are the 1.5 million adverse reactions reported to the Yellow Card system, including 2,000 deaths?
- “Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, 66, will miss Queen’s Platinum Jubilee service at St Paul’s Cathedral after being diagnosed with Covid and mild pneumonia” – Welby was diagnosed with pneumonia on Thursday last week but was still well enough to continue working on a reduced schedule, Lambeth Palace said, according to the Mail.
- “Data shenanigans as Sweden misleads its public over vaccination-related mortality data” – Sweden has been caught counting deaths as unvaccinated right up until 14 days after a second jab, says HART. Which other countries are playing the same game?
- “Hear me out” – A whistleblower audiologist speaks to HART about the way paediatric services are letting children down through an ongoing lack of face-to-face care.
- “Won’t Get Fooled Again” – After the pandemic, Americans should never let public-health authorities deprive them of their liberties, writes John Tierney in City Journal.
- “Menstrual Irregularities, Uterus Shedding Cases Spike After Covid Vaccine Rollout: Peer-Reviewed Study” – The first of three peer-reviewed research studies on women who suffered menstrual irregularities or a decidual cast around the time Covid vaccines were rolled out begins to shed light on the sudden spike of this historically rare gynecological abnormality, reports the Epoch Times.
- “The spineless generation” – There is nothing wrong with being sensible about one’s health, but health concern is now a religion, an end in itself and the supreme value, says Dr. Frank Palmer in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Jacinda Ardern is New Zealand’s Gorbachev” – Foreigners love the New Zealand Prime Minister. Kiwis? Not so much, says Nicholas Sheppard in the Spectator.
- “N. Korea lifts Covid lockdown amid ‘stable’ virus situation – media” – North Korea has lifted movement restrictions imposed in the capital Pyongyang after its first admission of a COVID-19 outbreak weeks ago, media reported, as the isolated country says the virus situation is now under control, Reuters reports. So has the virus magically evaporated during the lockdown?
- “British Airways staff threaten summer strike” – Unions seize on travel chaos to demand higher wages, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why Did U.S. Intellectuals and Officials Celebrate and Copy China’s Lockdown Model?” – The Chinese Communist Party carefully cultivated the World Health Organisation over a decade, and there’s a growing mountain of evidence that it made significant headway in cultivating the health and security bureaucracies of many member nations as well, writes Michael Senger at Brownstone.
- “The three despicable myths that are dooming Britain to eternal mediocrity” – The U.K. is in crisis because we’ve swallowed an unholy trinity of Left-wing lies, says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
- “Millions of homes warned of winter blackouts” – Electricity could be rationed if the Kremlin cuts off further gas supplies to Europe, reports the Telegraph.
- “Scientists plan to feed primary school children locusts and mealworms to make the UK greener” – Edible insects are highly nutritious and have a much smaller carbon footprint than conventional meat, scientists say, as a trial gets underway at primary schools, reports the i.
- “Justice system ‘puts trans rights ahead of women’” – Report in the Times that women are being failed by the criminal justice system because it is too focused on transgender rights, according to a report from Policy Exchange.
- “Watch: Trans activists hound Nadhim Zahawi off university campus” – A video in the Telegraph shows the Education Secretary being ushered away by security guards at Warwick University after he was pursued by student protesters.
- “What Stella Creasy gets wrong about trans rights” – Julie Bindel in the Speccie weighs in on the Labour MP’s difficulties with basic biology.
- “Boris Johnson is opening the door to a populist insurgency” – Brexit was meant to deliver lower immigration, but the reverse is happening, writes Eric Kaufmann in UnHerd.
- “Why Biden’s Ministry of Truth had to fail” – “Disinformation” just means oppositional views and inconvenient truths, writes Simon Evans in Spiked.
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Good morning.
A lot of jabber jabber about…
I wonder if people who don’t have prolonged contact with broken skin (remind you of anything?) or for that matter haven’t damaged their immunity with experimental medication, poor nutrition, excessive sanitising and refraining from social mixing need to worry about this monkeypox then?
Good morning, Hugh. 🙂
None in my house, mate; no jabs, or jabber jabber. 😉
Wait til those monkeys come. Or is it chimps? And then they can scapegoat someone for it, like with the Muslims who agreed to have covid on the death certificate of their loved ones so they could bury them within 24 hours…
Good morning, Hugh and Ceriain.
I have refused to read a line about the latest terror weapon.
A pox on their poxes. The world is a beautiful place despite the maniacs.
I feel the only thing we have to worry about monkeypox is talking about monkeypox. This especially applies to the media which is like a rather autistic child with ADHD, either repeating it endlessly or losing attention quickly and then focusing on something else. By July, it’ll be something else and again in August ad infinitum.
No more than Chickenpox.
“Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, 66, will miss Queen’s Platinum Jubilee service at St Paul’s Cathedral after being diagnosed with Covid and mild pneumonia” – Welby was diagnosed with pneumonia on Thursday last week but was still well enough to continue working on a reduced schedule, Lambeth Palace said, according to the Telegraph.
That’s a Daily Mail story, Will.
There you go; fixed. 😉
I wonder what happens to C of E clergy who refuse to test and refuse to continue “woking”… (I think he tested positive rather than having a proper medical diagnosis. Also reported as having mild pneumonia. Presumably would’ve been much worse without the “vaccines” etc. he presumably had).
Obviously we shouldn’t think ill of the dead but hopefully this is terminal.
One of my big bugbears of the lockdowns, that so many clergy have put fear of death (and too many other things besides) before trust in God.
And then there was Durham cathedral’s carol service with its vaxports ( and apparently clergy who don’t believe Christian doctrine). Really the churches should’ve been leading the opposition to the human rights abuses, rather than collaborating.
Here’s radical concept. Why don’t the churches talk about God’s love (you know, quaint old-fashioned stuff like that), rather than the latest scary disease?
And here’s a suggested Bible reading:
John 10:10: “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”
They might like to spend time on the meaning of “abundantly”.
Too much of the church caught up in the culture of death (or at least a culture of existing but not living).
I remember a story about a young reporter once who thought he would try and catch Margaret Thatcher out by asking her a question about what Christian value she considered most important (rather like the one about paying taxes to Caesar), and she promptly replied “freedom of choice”.
A lot of truth in that, of course, but sadly, far too many Christians seem to have blindly followed the no freedoms agenda, and not least at Durham cathedral.
She was too smart to fall for that one!
The quote from John is one of my favourites, for its warmth and generosity.
The treatment of churches and the behaviour of too many churches in all this has been disgraceful.
This Chimpitus is seemingly morphing into a scariant of concern – it’s jumping about all over the place.
Some highlights from that Monkeypox article:
Daily Mail; what a rag!
A nice cup of PG Tips may be prophylactic.
“Dad, do you know the piano’s on my foot?”
“You hum it son, I’ll play it.”
Used to love that advert as a young’un, and the Smash aliens.
Yes. I seem to remember a vote for independence from the European Union was supposed to be a victory for freedom – and look what has happened since January 2020! I wonder if these rebel countries will be punished too?
PRESIDENT CUTTING DISCUSSION SHORT IN ORDER TO ALLOW PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURERS TO SPEAK: 2:26:30 – 2:28:18
And who voted for them again? And were victims of “vaccine” injuries who had not given free and informed consent allowed to speak too? Were they?
“I’m aflaid that this chair is going to stand in between of yourself and a delicious lunch”.
I’ll bet. More than can be said for the millions who will go hungry because of the policies of these crooks. And why are they all wearing masks?
Oh dear, Billy Tits, Carnage and Schwab are going to be fizzing.
God bless Africa.
By sheer coincidence, it seems the countries that objected to the WHO’s attempt to enslave us all are, by and large, the very same ones refusing to condemn Russia for their entirely humanitarian intervention to stop a genocidal attack on eastern Ukraine.
“These included Brazil, Brunei, Namibia, Bangladesh, India, China, South Africa, and Iran. Brazil in particular said it would exit WHO altogether, rather than allow its population to be made subject to the new amendments.”
But these are the bad guys of the world, right?
Meanwhile, the west was, of course, absolutely justified in seeking this WHO overreach and there was no ulterior motive like, let’s think……enslaving the world?
I have been banging on for weeks now that Putin rightly and legally invoked UN Article 51 to intervene in Ukraine and have been condemned by the usual nutters claiming Putin is a dictator determined to enslave the world.
Well folks, his opportunity was right there and he turned it down.
I don’t like what Russia has done however, I would rather this than stand by impotently and watch reports of genocide as in Rwanda and Bosnia roll in whilst nations stood by twiddling their thumbs.
A downtick for stated facts.
Some people are on the industrial strength Kool Aid…….🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
“Scientists plan to feed primary school children locusts and mealworms to make the UK greener.”
Whoever these “scientists” are just take the ph#okers out and shoot them.
Good morning, hp.
Is there meant to be a “to” after children? I’m not fully awake yet – might have missed it.
No, that’s “On Ilkley Moor Bar tat”, and it’s Mary Jane…
On Ilkley Moor Bar t’At.
Without a hat.
“On Ilkla Moor Baht ‘at”. Allegedly. I never was very good at writing dialects…
Maybe AE can teach us how the Aussies do it?
The “On Ilkley Moor” bit baffled me; though I take it that rhyming slang is used.
We use that in abundance. My favourites: “merchant banker” (for you know what), “Warwick Farms” (arms), and the now very old-fashioned “Joe Blakes” for snakes.
As for writing dialect, as you well know there is no need to use a special form of writing for those who speak English perfectly; as we do downunder (with a rich and proper appreciation of the luxuriant, mouth-savouring quality of vowels).
Most Australians of my acquaintance can get as many syllables into “Mate” as Edith Evans did into “Found?”.
I probably should have put a link. It’s because he ended up getting eaten by worms that I thought of it. It’s a well known Yorkshire song, hence the dialect – English starts to get a bit incomprehensible that far North:
On Ilkla Moor Baht ‘at – Lyrics (liquisearch.com)
Here’s what it sounds like…
on ilkley moor bar t’at lyrics at DuckDuckGo
HP and most people in the North of England will know it.
That reminds me, I read a story once about someone whose garden turned out to be a former graveyard, which gave it a striking fecundity. I understand the Indians have something similar with human waste being recycled as fertiliser.
I have an old gardening book which recommends growing tomatoes in “night soil”. Some years ago, fields were being sprayed with the processed by-product of sewage works.
London waste (cough) used to be collected by night watchmen and was ultimately used to fertilise the fields supplying fruit and vegetables to the city.
Well if you want AE😀
We should never underestimate the tender concern of these “scientists” for our Planet, Blessed Be Its Name.
And children, as far as many of the current crop of pontificating hirelings are concerned, are born to serve.
Too right, too many Gaia worshiping fantasists, among these people, too little Birkenhead drill.
Aye, exactly that sort of thing!
Apologies. Good morning AE. I hope you are well.
No apologies needed.
I may have become unduly suspicious, hp; but back in March 2020, I thought people were just being silly about this new coronavirus thingy..
I suspect it will make their poop greener. Well, it’s a start.
Mirror article: “Tory MP slapped down by watchdog for false claim about Covid jab deaths”
I hope he slaps her back.
From the article (which is full of ‘official’ defence of the faked Covid numbers, by the way):
Yes, it was listed as such, even when it wasn’t!
Article is full of sh!t! Daily Mirror? What a rag!
Mark Steyn (GB News) was talking about this. 27 “vaccine” deaths rather than over 2,000 (yellow card)? Even though there have been more yellow card reported adverse reactions than all the real vaccines combined before these gene therapy drugs? Seriously? And the Mirror are supposed to be champions of the people? Their WHO/WEF people maybe, but not us. Wir sind das Volk. (And that’s a reference to 1989, not Pegida, for any Times muppets who may be reading).
If you can bear to read them, the comments reveal a lot about the gullibility and sheer stupidity, combined with remarkable anti-Chope animus, of the rags readership.
“Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, 66, will miss Queen’s Platinum Jubilee service at St Paul’s Cathedral after being diagnosed with Covid and mild pneumonia.”
Stating the obvious but the clot – shots haven’t worked.
That’s a bit of a pfizzer.
Perhaps he should have tried prayer?
What a ridiculous suggestion! /s 😉 😉
As Sister Michael famously said in Derry Girls, when one of her charges asked her should they pray:
“Don’t be daft, sure what good would that do?”
why would he still test himself??
the vaccine was really effective. NOT!!
Is any country actually being honest over “vaccine” mortality? I think it was Thailand who had paid out some £45 million in “vaccine” damages so far, so they’re ahead of us on that front.
Any tv channels globally that give a daily “vaccine” deaths update? Me, I’d love to hear a Devi Sridhar podcast talking about the latest “vaccine” deaths and injury data…
“This prescription for cowardice is also reflected in the obstructive, obscurantist, bureaucratic policies of ‘health and safety’ regulations that infect so many of our institutions (even the emergency services, where the ethos of ‘safety first’ can see in principle if not in practice police officers watching a child drown in a lake if the prospect of saving him goes against a ‘risk assessment’).” (TCW).
Yes. There was a story a few years back about a coastguard who was reprimanded for rescuing a girl on a cliff as he had broken safety rules to do so and subsequently resigned. Probably about then that I realised we had a serious problem. How far we have fallen from the high ideals of the Birkenhead drill. I suppose I should not be too surprised at the last two years, but I’d love to know how we got here.
The late, great Christopher Booker was warning about the possibility of blackouts years ago. Never forget that if the “not the Conservative Party” had acted on these warnings (instead of taking the Guardian line), any danger of this could have easily been avoided. I say again, it’s too bad that it wasn’t rather a lot more than four million of us that “wasted” our vote in 2015.
“Millions of homes warned of winter blackouts” – Electricity could be rationed if the Kremlin cuts off further gas supplies to Europe, reports the Telegraph.
The times when most families feed their kids (and themselves).
Covid’s stopped killing pensioners – time for Plan B.
What complete and utter bollocks!
Oh, and they’re going to blame it all on Putin.
Reminds me of Private Godfrey in that Dad’s Army episode: “I stay in bed all day with a hot water bottle – you can’t get the coal”. Do you suppose all that Churchill stuff is going to Johnson’s head and he is trying to recreate wartime Britain?
I seem to remember a G Brown blamed the financial crisis on American bankers (and never mind his own selling off of the gold reserves at rock bottom proces, and his talk of ending boom and bust). It doe puzzle me sometimes, all these politicians with PPE degrees, and yet they still so often appear clueless about these issues.
Precisely the reason Trump was successful, he wasn’t interested in politics, but when he had to, he could tie the globalist’s in knots.
‘The times when most families feed their kids (and themselves).’
Winter – dark, depressing mornings, getting up and leaving the house in the dark; coming home and sitting in the dark until 9pm; no central heating / hot water between 7am – 10am / 4pm – 9pm; children doing homework in candlelight and no or limited access to internet / PC / TV etc.
Those with some gas appliances – hobs, ovens, gas fires – may fare better with meal preparation and heating solitary rooms but all electric households will have a problem.
What about supermarkets, petrol stations, general ‘eateries’ to wine / dine etc – will they be lumped into the enforced rationing lurking in the wings?
In the bleak midwinter…
Today, as with numerous days over the last month or so, we are getting 4% of our electricity from wind turbines which, in theory, can provide us with 30% of our electricity. They never do of course unless we are experiencing stormy conditions.
If we have blackouts this winter it will be nothing to do with Russian gas supplies (we only get around 4% from there) it will be because we have insufficient CCGT capacity to compensate for the 26% the wind turbines and solar panels can’t provide.
Unless this congenitally incompetent government gets its finger out and starts building more CCGT power stations right now, or we are facing years of blackouts and power shortages.
NetZero is now finished all bar the shouting.
Stuart Kirk of HSBC has now woken the financial world up to it and we can expect to see returns from green investment plummet.
Gas appliances won’t work these days. They need mains electricity.
The days when a gas cooker could operate off a battery are over.
The authorities also strongly prefer power cuts to gas cuts. If the gas pressure falls, and appliances automatically switch off, returning the system to normality is quite difficult and dangerous. Gas explosions can occur. Recovering from a power cut is easier.
We had a lot of power cuts in the early 1970s due to miner’s strikes but more things worked without a continuous electricity supply. In 2022, try buying food from Sainsbury’s during a power cut.
So, my forecast: the mains gas supply won’t go off, the electricity may …
That’s why I bought a generator, at the very least to keep the heating running in the winter, although it does an admirable job of keeping everything else going providing you don’t switch everything on at once.
My point was implicit in the text of my post, gas cuts are unlikely, it’s the lack of electricity generating facilities (CCGT) which are the problem.
I remember the 70’s power cuts well.
Modern gas appliances need an elec connection , and just seen the point has already been made.
Drat! I remember days of old when the sparky thing played up on the gas cooker / hob, or gas fire, a match or one of those gas candle lighters would ignite the gas.
Yeah, lighting the oven could take the hairs off your arm!
That’s going to leave me very busy between 10 am and 4pm – making hot meals to fill a flask with so I can have hot food in the evening. Going to be eating a lot of soup by the looks of things.
Back to the early 70’s by the looks of things.
I rather hope we do get some brownouts tbh, it would provide a stark reminder CBDC does not have the utility of cash. I remember the 1970’s.
Hmm, if government were responsible, and had planned for every single extereme scenario, we wouldn’t be faced with this issue; or the supply issue of a prolonged winter high weather system where “renewables” are useless.
But so many of these chaps who devised this spiffing policy have a wind turbine or several on their country estate which does a simply marvellous job of powering everything one needs
(read with suitable posho accent for authenticity as per current holder of offices of PM and Prince of Wales)
I smelt this coming early last year so spent the best part of £2k for a generator and housing to languish in the garden until it’s needed.
We have several years of this to go yet.
They never let up, do they? It’s just one depressing headline after another. They may as well say: “You’re all going to die of starvation and cold.” Or the jollier: “Great Britain celebrates Queen’s £1 billion Jubilee as children go hungry in the dark and cold.”
Another fifty-year-old former Aussie sports star nearly dies from a heart attack. Australian Rules champion footballer and two-time premiership player for the West Coast Eagles in the 1990s, Peter Matera, suffered a ‘severe’ heart attack yesterday, aged just 53. He was a fit, former elite sportsman who kept up his health and fitness post-football by working on his farm in regional Victoria. He was chopping wood when he collapsed and is lucky to be alive, having been rushed to hospital by his wife, where he had stents inserted to reduce the chance of a follow-up massive heart attack. Shane Warne was 52 when he died of a heart attack in Bali, whilst Ryan Campbell (Australian short-form cricketer), aged 50, narrowly survived a heart attack in London. Rod Marsh died of a heart attack aged 74. Tennis champ, Ash Barty, inexplicably gave the game away when in her prime. Many more retired but still youngish Australian sports stars have experienced myocarditis, heart arrythmia, Bell’s Palsy, etc. The establishment commentariat have not uttered the word ‘vaccine’, of course, or the associated vaccine job mandates and passports which have seen some 95% of Australians roll up their sleeves for at least one jab. There is a narrative to protect, after… Read more »
Not just sportsmen and women. I know a 60 something landscape gardener – that’s his job – great outdoors person, manual work every day, very fit and active…..started with pains in his chest and difficulty breathing after the third magic jab; he’s also waiting for an operation to put stents in his heart.
No history of anything like it, for him or in his family, before 2021. I wonder what could have happened?
My appendix exploded a month or two ago. Didn’t make any connection at all, until my dentist told me I am the fifth of her patients to experience this in the last year… surely just a coincidence?
Sorry to hear that, but nice to hear someone has made the obvious association.
What needs to be done is to have Bill Gates transported to India to stand trial for his vaccinations which caused wholesale death and injury to young Indian women who were tricked into taking one of his vaccinations.
The death sentence is still supported in India.
A friend of mine – just 28 – told me he had recently been taken into hospital with appendicitis and peritonitis. I was already wondering if this had anything to do with the “vaccines” he’d had. This news of yours and your dentist is very interesting. It seems appendicitis post Covid vaccine is an adverse event of special interest but apparently only in the subsequent few days. My friend was “vaccinated” a year ago. Could it be a lasting effect? Acute appendicitis in a patient immunised with COVID-19 vaccine: a case report with morphological analysis – PubMed (nih.gov)
And can you get that from ‘shedding’ – which is now confirmed as a thing by the scrutiny of the Pfizer released documents.
Craig Farrell dies at the age of 39;Craig Farrell, former Carlisle, York and England youth striker, dies age 39 | York City | The Guardian
Wife of former Chelsea player Ulises Dávila dies unexpectedly overnight: Mystery as award-winning former Chelsea soccer star’s young wife dies in Australia | Daily Mail Online Another strange “single vehicle fatal accident” involving former Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds:Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds dies in car crash (msn.com)
How many more fit fifty-year-old sportsmen and women will it take for the ‘authorities’ to admit there is a pattern here to be investigated?
It would take one major news outlet or program worthy of the name, but that’s unlikely to happen. “Four Corners” would once have been all over something like this.
Oh it’s incredibly common, didn’t you know, AE? Sportsmen and women die all the time. Must be the healthy diet. They’re just too healthy for their own good.
We won?
https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/we-won
Hmm, the U.K. gov response on 27th May 2022 to the petition:
‘ Do not sign any WHO Pandemic Treaty…’
which received over 150,000 signatures:
‘To protect lives, the economy and future generations from future pandemics, the UK government supports a new legally-binding instrument to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response…’
A parliamentary debate date is to be set but looking at the response in full, it looks highly likely that the gov will be abdicating responsibility to the WHO.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/614335?reveal_response=yes
This is the standard reply for just about any petition that is about people’s liberty or indeed about anything that improves people’s lives. These parliament petitions are useless. It’s like shouting into a vacuum, your voice goes nowhere. The steamroller rolls on regardless and the spineless MPs will, no doubt, vote it through (‘cos they were told to!). I feel we must look to the courts unless they are spineless too, probably are. I get an impression that this against the UK constitution – and yes, we do have one, it’s called the Magna Carta, no matter what you are told.
Time to fully resurrect the Magna Carta and a means by which to enforce it.
Must have been a scary experience for poor old Nadhim Zahawi to be sent skedaddling by a group of intolerant shrieking harpies.
Still, he is the guy who a few weeks ago whilst acknowledging that the teaching of Critical Race Theory in schools is illegal, waved his hands about and said there’s nothing he can do about it; he’s issued ‘guidelines’ apparently, a bit like the pirates code then.
I suppose he might be remembered some day for his planned GCSE on Climate Change. Well done mate, keep up the good work.
Imagine if they had called the police to Warwick University; they would have arrested him for hate speech and inciting violence. That would have been great to watch.
He can reflect on the fact that when he’s in opposition and decides to tweet that, you know, ‘biological women are women’, a nice statutory instrument about ‘legal but harmful speech’ will have him silenced quick smart!
O happy days! Now where’s that bloody bottle of malt?
Still, he is the guy who a few weeks ago whilst acknowledging that the teaching of Critical Race Theory in schools is illegal, waved his hands about and said there’s nothing he can do about it; he’s issued ‘guidelines’ apparently, a bit like the pirates code then. The problem is, that whilst our government maintains it is all powerful, it isn’t really. These temporary custodians of our unwritten constitution simply manipulate our laws to suit their particular agenda of the moment. Our system of government isn’t fit to move forward with. It has failed us badly far too often in very recent history on a catastrophic scale. Nor do I mean a revolution, other than there needs to be a root and branch examination of our system of governance, international memberships (NATO, WHO etc.) the HoL, our system of representation, local politics, and the standards local MP’s must achieve before they can be elected. Our current local system relies upon a popularity contest between people with no right to be running the country. And whilst I do not mean academic qualifications, our current Secretary of State for Transport managed to achieve 5 O Levels including a B in Woodwork at… Read more »
I agree with the thrust of your point but feel I should point out academic achievements have no relation to a persons ability to do a job in the real world. Our useless Secretary of State for Transport may only have 5 O Levels but our Prime Minister has a degree from Oxford and is equally useless.
I entirely agree with you. Indeed, I value that our parliamentarians don’t require qualifications however, one of my points was that MP’s are chosen in a popularity contest, not on the basis of any previous successes.
To be fair to Shapps he went on to start a successful printing business in his 20’s which, by my definition, is a success. My point wasn’t that Shapps is incapable (although I personally think he’s just another woke, yes man) but that any Tom, Dick or Harry with absolutely no credentials could wind up as PM.
Boris is a pretty good example. A journalist with no experience of anything wound up first as London Mayor, then PM, based mostly on his perceived popularity and colourful nature.
Q: “And what have you done in your life to justify running a multi billion pound business Mr. Johnson?”
A: “I wrote stories for a living”.
Seriously?
On that basis Shapps is eminently more qualified to run the country than Boris, at least he has a modicum of business acumen, not that I think running a local print company is good enough either.
We Won” – The Biden Administration suffered a stunning defeat in its attempt to amend the International Health Regulations at the World Health Assembly last week, says James Roguski. Is Mr Johnson going to tell everyone. That the WHO who gave us the Pandemic by altering the criteria for a Pandemic will have NO authority over our health care
Take a look at the countries which voted against it, the very ones supporting Russia in its intervention in a humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, the potential genocide of ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine.
The west has descended into the world’s technocratic villain and most people are just too blind to see it.
Christ! has anyone tried to get their kids to eat vegetables? Good luck with that plan.
Yes, a bit of turnaround there: now it is the Greens that eat the young children!
Mankind has been eating meat every for 10s of thousands of years and the earth has always managed just fine. Why is it suddenly a problem now?
Pointless quiz TV programme last night.
When a set of questions concerning the first names of famous people, one of the questions was:”What was the first name of the person called the “conqueror” who defeated King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066?
Answer from a university graduate:”I’ll take a punt on William?”
Ain’t higher education wonderful?
Actually it was Guillaume – a real university student should have known that.
Did Unions seize on travel chaos, or did they seize on runaway inflation? Enquiring minds want to know!
BA heading for bankruptcy. They are in big trouble.
I doubt that they are alone?
Indeed not, but I don’t see many others flailing around like a dervish.
all part of the wonderful plan – as long as elite can still travel by private jets of course
I hope they taste better than school meals I remember, I still can’t eat white cabbage or semelina <puke>
I played Rugby for our school so was always training. One of my best mates and I still joke about us lining up for seconds of everything at lunch time.
Chocolate sponge cake and custard. Yum!
… much smaller carbon footprint…
Is that because they have tiny feet?
I heard this week that less than 1% of people identify as trans gender. I think it was related to the German population, as I heard it from a German source, and it was part of the discussion about wokeims in Germany, which is horrendously “popular” in certain circles there.
Where have I heard this before…1% of the people affecting the lives and behaviour of the other 99%?
Sounds a bit like our useless governmental system.
It depends what ‘identify as’ means. If it means those with a diagnosable psychiatric disorder – body Dysmorphia – then 1% would be a gross over-estimation, a rounding error.
If it means the usual idiot brigade that follows the latest ‘thing’, and next week will change to the new fad and identify as… then it is probably about right.
A friend’s daughter in law, who is a teacher, informs me that one in three girls in her class ‘identify’ as something as diverse as clouds or cats, with a couple who think they are boys… she cites TikTok as a major influence. Fortunately, my kids are beyond this age and I’ll be dead by the time those in her class take over, I wish them luck.
Could links be marked if they lead to a paywall, please?
‘… monkeypox cases jump 70% in just three days to 179 as health chiefs say anyone who develops a new rash should abstain from sex”
A bit late with that advice.
You’d think that if there were that many cases and it’s so deadly, the NHS would have updated pics of pustulant poxy parts posted on its disease pages as a dreadful warning to others, instead of relying on the old shingly hand one….
179? Wow, it’s getting massive 😀
so the likes of Rod Liddle are belatedly waking up to what was blinding obvious at the time – that lockdowns were unnecessary and would do far more harm than good. Too late now though chum, we are only just beginning feel the effects of lockdown with far worse no doubt to come. I’ve said it before on here but it still amazes me that people quite happily let themselves be indefinitely held prisoner in their own homes while the fact Turk and his cronies in government and the medical establishment set about destroying the country.
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/monkey-pox-update?s=r
Malone posted this an hour ago. Suggests that the monkeybollox has been genetically manipulated.
In conclusion, the preponderance of current evidence is pointing towards a hypothesis for the origin of this outbreak which is increasingly consistent with prior “war game” scenario planning, remarkably akin to that which occurred during Event 201, which posits emergence of an engineered Monkeypox virus into the human population during mid-May of 2022.
REVEALED: Fauci’s Recent, $10M Monkeypox Grant.
Anthony Fauci’s National Institutes of Health agency was funding research to identify treatments for monkeypox shortly before the virus began spreading in a global outbreak.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/05/30/fauci-funded-monkeypox-virus-treatment-study/
“The funding supports a clinical trial to identify effective treatments for monkeypox virus disease,” explains a summary of the research.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant database shows that $9,824,009 was sent to Leidos Biomedical Research, which partners with the NIH’s National Cancer Institute (NCI) to operate Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, in 2021.
The grant, which is set to conclude on September 27th, 2025, was distributed to Lori Dodd, who was previously exposed for her involvement in the NIAID’s efforts to cover up the agency reportedly altering the endpoint in a trial testing the effects of remdesivir against COVID-19 to make it look more effective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-2WvKpEU48&ab_channel=GBNews
A short clip of an interview with Neil Oliver of a young journalist who’d apparently been at WEF.
Note that Senator (Dr Rand) Paul was filmed saying just a day or so ago that “The Davos group is the more frightening example of a one-world government.
They’ve created a faked pandemic (SARS-CoV-2) & potentially another is bubbling under (Monkeypox). Both were tabletop simulations, months before (so we’re told) the real thing happened. Twice.
Now, statistics don’t allow such outcomes by chance. It’s enemy action.
They’re global predators & we are the prey (Drs Breggin)
World Economic Forum… Due to climate change there will be never ending pandemics… this is just the start
https://twitter.com/Resist_05/status/1530778636953206784?s=20&t=FznAtlG-6Etsmbkh6O7RBA
Words really do fail me now.
Good though that she prefaced her utter lunacy with the words “I’m not a scientist but….”
Could have been so much worse. Imagine if she had said she WAS a scientist and she thinks that a slew of pandemics would be caused by climate change creating bacteria we have no immunity to.
we are governed by fools. This is useful to know.